A French Professor is Sitting Atop a 40-Foot Mast for a Week in the Name of Art

Abraham Poincheval is a French art professor. This week, he climbed up a ship mast platform that’s been erected in the city of Rennes in western France in the the pursuit of the truth about perspective.

Having taken food, clothes and a sleeping bag up the structure, he’ll remain there for a week to “meditate and write on questions of perspective,” according to Associated Press. Right.